BREAKING: Obama Ally Makes Dirty Move, Get Ready to Pay More for Gas

OPEC’s president kvetched on Tuesday about crude oil prices being too low, and judging by his tone, it sounded as if Americans were about to pay more for gas.

“I don’t think we are yet at a fair price,” Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, who serves as both OPEC’s president and Qatar’s energy and industry minister, remarked during an interview with Associated Press. “We need to have a fairer price so that we can have the ability to invest more in order to secure the energy supply to the world and avoid any price shock.”

According to al-Sada, the price of crude oil was too low to spur investment and supply the global market for the long term. He added that the security of future supplies was at risk due to the price slump, which had reportedly been squeezing oil producers.

He expressed a desire to see the price of crude oil reach $65 per barrel — about a 30 percent jump from current pricing — despite that fact that crude oil prices have nearly doubled already this year.

By late May, crude oil was priced at about $50 per barrel, and regular unleaded gasoline cost approximately $2 per gallon. If crude oil were to rise to $65 per barrel, gas prices would likely rise to closer to $3 per gallon.

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But unfortunately, America remains at the mercy of OPEC and has no other option but to absorb any potential price increases. This would not be the case were its leaders, namely President Barack Obama, to invest more in domestic oil production.

It just so happens that the idea of fracking, as an example, greatly displeases dear leader — and thus the chances of the United States weening itself off foreign oil seems like an impossibility for the time being.

Perhaps a future president might feel otherwise, though. We can always hope.